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EXT4 File-System Looks To Do Well Against NTFS

Phoronix: EXT4 File-System Looks To Do Well Against NTFS

We began this week by providing the first extensive Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 benchmarks to see whether Microsoft's operating system is faster than the most popular Linux distribution. In that first article we began by providing the OpenGL graphics benchmarks and the numbers were certainly interesting. Subsequently we delivered power consumption tests between Ubuntu Linux and Microsoft Windows on a netbook and a notebook. Now we are still preparing for the next set of tests, but until then, here are two disk tests looking at the file-system performance on Windows 7 with NTFS versus Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with EXT4...

When you need performance and you are using Windows 7 on a workstation, it doesn't make any sense to have real time antivirus running.
If you are just a home user, you should always run real time antivirus, but in that case the perfomence hit doesn't make any difference.

This is third test that compares Windows 7 with Ubuntu 10.04.
It is important to understand that it is Windows vs Ubuntu and not Windows with Linux.
The tests like power consumption is almost useless as it compares power consumption of mobile computers which connected to wall !!!
I follow Phoronix for some time and I feel kind of disappointment from PTS. the results are pointless in terms of telling you what ca and what cannot be done with your computer. The best example is HD video playback.

Actually these results are -very- favorable to Windows 7.
In one of my previous projects we developed a high-performance network storage server that was forced to handle a constant stream of literally billions of extremely small files (average size was under 2KB).

As Windows 2K8's CreateFile is notoriously slow (we developed a fully cross platform code), no matter how many optimization we added to the code, and no matter how many registry keys we flipped (E.g. disable 8.3 support) we simply couldn't get NTFS anywhere close to ext3 and ext4.

As I recall, ext3 (out-of-the-box) was somewhat faster than a optimized ext4 (write barrier disabled, we were using a huge FC storage).
And both were ~12-20x faster then 2K8 NTFS.

Naturally I used the benchmark to throw yet another Windows server out of our system.

When you need performance and you are using Windows 7 on a workstation, it doesn't make any sense to have real time antivirus running.
If you are just a home user, you should always run real time antivirus, but in that case the perfomence hit doesn't make any difference.

It wouldn't make sense if antivirus was running, so you can be nearly sure it wasn't.